CVSASKPASS(1)

💖 CVSASKPASS(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to section 1 of the general commands manual, we're talking about cvsaskpass today and honestly? she's a lil backstage queen, not the main character you talk to directly. let's get into it ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

cvsaskpass — prompts for a password for the CVS DCOP service 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cvsaskpass [ generic-options ] prompt

like that's it, that's the whole vibe check 🦋

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this utility pops up a dialog box and asks the user for the password to a CVS repository. then it writes that password to standard output and dips. that's the whole job. periodt 💖

🫶 real talk: you should not need to run this program directly. it is designed for the internal use of cvsservice(1). she's a supporting character, not a solo act, ok?

the prompt should be of the following form:

user@host's password:

that specific shape lets the dialog box show the user all the deets of the CVS repository 👑 iykyk.

also this utility is part of the CVS service provided with Cervisia, which in turn is part of the KDE Software Development Kit. iconic lineage fr fr 🌈

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

For a full summary of options, run:

cvsaskpass --help

that's literally the whole options section, she keeps it short 💅

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🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

• if a password was successfully obtained, 0 is returned. slay. ✅
• if no prompt was supplied on the command-line, or if the dialog was cancelled, 1 is returned. 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• cervisia(1)
• cvsservice(1)
• dcop(1)

Details of how to use the CVS service from within another script or C++ program can be found in /usr/share/doc/libcvsservice0/DESIGN 📚✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

The CVS service was written by Christian Loose <christian.loose@kdemail.net> 💜

Cervisia was written by Bernd Gehrmann <bernd@physik.hu-berlin.de>, Christian Loose <christian.loose@kdemail.net>, Andre Woebbeking <woebbeking@web.de>, Carlos Woelz <carloswoelz@imap-mail.com> and others 🌸

This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) 🫶

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 🎀 this was CVSASKPASS(1), dated March 19, 2005 — ty for reading, mwah 💋✨